This is not competition. This is a virtual monopolist trying to muscle out a competitor with the vast amounts of money this monopolist has gained using it's monopoly. If this were real competition, MS would offer the same prices to the average customer, and not ask a ridiculous $199.
MS clearly demonstrates the reason why the EU hammers down on MS so hard.
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The list does make me wonder: what is a technology company? The biggest trigger for this wonder is the strange omission of one Xerox corp. With $922 million of R&D in 2006 it should have been ranked 13 (which seems strangly fitting considering the IP-Address space they have).
there are all sorts of other issues such as the hundreds or thousands of miles of fiber, all suscptible to a good backhoeing.
Trust me, thousands of miles of fiber are not an issue in this. I work for a major US company, and I am based in Europe. There is only one mailserver, and that is in the US. Every communication goes around the world, twice.
Granted, it is all on our internal network, but I would be very surprised if it was a global VPN. I think it goes unshielded across the internet.
But apart from that, I totally agree that you do not put your servers or data in somebody else's hands. Ever. Measures against corporate spying are tough enough as they are, imagine the headaches it will give when your data is on some server in some datacenter that you don't have access to but for all you know, the rest of the world does.
What, early 2008, that's a year in the future. More to the point, that's countless bugs, major flaws, critical exploits and 2 Vista servicepacks away. Nobody really liked XP when it started, only after SP1 it became bearable (and I switched after SP2). And for the people that really care there are always versions to be found on P2P.
Have the ROM, have the book. Probably have the T-shirt too, somewhere.
Had the opportunity to collect a large bunch of 41 stuff some 10 years ago. ROM's, card reader, printer. The lot. The guy I got it from just shoved a large shoebox my way and said "maybe you like it better than I do". Great fun. Back in the old days, when you could pick up old HP calculators FOR FREE.
It now occupies only the lower shelf of my HP calculator display stand.
Hmm, I think I got my calculations wrong. They are all around 60 mpg. Calculating hogwarts per zonkhead is difficult for regular people.
The smart does get 3.4 l/100km (69 mpg) according to its specs. No idea how that holds up in practice. And even I would call a Smart not practical for normal use.
Are you for real? There are numerous cars on the market (in Europe anyway) from almost every manufacturer, which don't get to 60 mph in 15 seconds. Even so, how often do you get to 60 mph in 15 seconds? And I urge you to time it. Even though my car is fully capable of doing that, I think the only time I actually did that was to see what the car could do. Even when overtaking I rarely use the full 100 bhp the car delivers.
65 mpg? 78 mpg (3 liter / 100 km) is being claimed by VW and Audi even claims 81 mpg, although those values apparently are hard to reach during normal operation. There are other cars that are also above the 77 mpg mark, Citroen C2, VW Polo, Smart. But I expect that these cars are absolutely unknown to the US, as they are almost all less than 12 feet long.
If you combine these cars with stop-n-go (where the engine stops when you are stationary), small hybrid systems (smaller than in a Prius), you will get 90 mpg with no problem and I also think that 100 mpg will not be that hard.
While it may be very true that you have every right to be there and that the other vessel should keep a watch, it won't help you in any way if you're dead.
I have no experience with shipping on the high seas, only on rivers, lakes and canals, but even there I keep a respectful eye to the commerical shipping, even when I should have the right of way, and when in doubt, I make it clear that I make way and I would not feel safe if I could do that with wind power only. I have seen too many incidents and near misses involving unmaneuvereable sailing vessels to have the standpoint that it's unwise to rely on windpower and the other's watchful eye alone.
I readily accept the fact that I know next to nothing about aerodynamic flight (as opposed to just falling down), but I beg to differ.
I last saw a documentary claiming the fact that on one of the F-117 stealth plane's test flights, one of the tail stabilizers fell off. The pilot didn't even notice. He had to be informed by the chase plane.
So I submit that computers can have a very dramatic effect in keeping a plane stable when a human can not.
For something even more novel, see http://www.prautotype.nl/ (sorry, only Dutch) for an engine that can use a different compression for compression and exhaust stroke and can even change its compression dynamically whilst running.
I don't think so. You'll end up paying the rest of your 1 or 2 year contract without receiving service. Basically you violated the contract, so you'll have to pay.
Oh how the world would be a better place if you would've been able to get out of any contract with no extra charge by just abusing it.
Yeah, right. Welcome to corporate bullying tactics.
If you say "unlimited download", then that's just that. Unlimited. And don't go complaining that your customers use it as such. If you want to impose a limit (and there is nothing wrong with that basic principle) than say so. Don't be a corporate bully by buttering up to people with your "unlimited download" and then axing them down because they take you up on your promise.
AFTER, and only AFTER you've done that, I fully agree with your 4 steps.
The Explorer's search has been broken since XP. On numerous occasions I was searching for text in a file and XP search says it can't find it. I don't know if I'm missing some setting that it does not search all files (which I already gathered is standard) or that it just can't search right.
I've installed a proper search program. It works like charm. Not 100% better, at least 200% better (it finds stuff and doesn't annoy me)
Also, by eliminating garbage remnants - known in the military as a unit's "signature" - it could protect the unit's security by destroying clues that such refuse could provide to enemies.
So, the next Navy Seal team to go into a secret ops mission into Iraq takes along a small moving van in order to burn up their waste.
That, and the added sound pollution of the running diesel engine will not alert the enemy at all.
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This is not competition. This is a virtual monopolist trying to muscle out a competitor with the vast amounts of money this monopolist has gained using it's monopoly.
If this were real competition, MS would offer the same prices to the average customer, and not ask a ridiculous $199.
MS clearly demonstrates the reason why the EU hammers down on MS so hard.
The list does make me wonder: what is a technology company? The biggest trigger for this wonder is the strange omission of one Xerox corp. With $922 million of R&D in 2006 it should have been ranked 13 (which seems strangly fitting considering the IP-Address space they have).
Granted, it is all on our internal network, but I would be very surprised if it was a global VPN. I think it goes unshielded across the internet.
But apart from that, I totally agree that you do not put your servers or data in somebody else's hands. Ever. Measures against corporate spying are tough enough as they are, imagine the headaches it will give when your data is on some server in some datacenter that you don't have access to but for all you know, the rest of the world does.
What, early 2008, that's a year in the future.
More to the point, that's countless bugs, major flaws, critical exploits and 2 Vista servicepacks away. Nobody really liked XP when it started, only after SP1 it became bearable (and I switched after SP2).
And for the people that really care there are always versions to be found on P2P.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Have the ROM, have the book. Probably have the T-shirt too, somewhere.
Had the opportunity to collect a large bunch of 41 stuff some 10 years ago. ROM's, card reader, printer. The lot. The guy I got it from just shoved a large shoebox my way and said "maybe you like it better than I do".
Great fun. Back in the old days, when you could pick up old HP calculators FOR FREE.
It now occupies only the lower shelf of my HP calculator display stand.
I wasn't aware of the fact that assault was legal in the US.
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Internally, Microsoft refers to Vista as "Vista ME". This to indicate the stability of the whole.
Hmm, I think I got my calculations wrong. They are all around 60 mpg. Calculating hogwarts per zonkhead is difficult for regular people.
The smart does get 3.4 l/100km (69 mpg) according to its specs. No idea how that holds up in practice. And even I would call a Smart not practical for normal use.
Are you for real? There are numerous cars on the market (in Europe anyway) from almost every manufacturer, which don't get to 60 mph in 15 seconds.
Even so, how often do you get to 60 mph in 15 seconds? And I urge you to time it. Even though my car is fully capable of doing that, I think the only time I actually did that was to see what the car could do. Even when overtaking I rarely use the full 100 bhp the car delivers.
65 mpg? 78 mpg (3 liter / 100 km) is being claimed by VW and Audi even claims 81 mpg, although those values apparently are hard to reach during normal operation. There are other cars that are also above the 77 mpg mark, Citroen C2, VW Polo, Smart. But I expect that these cars are absolutely unknown to the US, as they are almost all less than 12 feet long.
If you combine these cars with stop-n-go (where the engine stops when you are stationary), small hybrid systems (smaller than in a Prius), you will get 90 mpg with no problem and I also think that 100 mpg will not be that hard.
Yes, they were. I've seen the same documentary and numerous reports can be found on the internet supporting this.
While it may be very true that you have every right to be there and that the other vessel should keep a watch, it won't help you in any way if you're dead.
I have no experience with shipping on the high seas, only on rivers, lakes and canals, but even there I keep a respectful eye to the commerical shipping, even when I should have the right of way, and when in doubt, I make it clear that I make way and I would not feel safe if I could do that with wind power only.
I have seen too many incidents and near misses involving unmaneuvereable sailing vessels to have the standpoint that it's unwise to rely on windpower and the other's watchful eye alone.
It made me think immediately of Adam from the Mythbusters:
"I reject reality and substitute my own."
So do 48% of Americans.
I readily accept the fact that I know next to nothing about aerodynamic flight (as opposed to just falling down), but I beg to differ.
I last saw a documentary claiming the fact that on one of the F-117 stealth plane's test flights, one of the tail stabilizers fell off. The pilot didn't even notice. He had to be informed by the chase plane.
So I submit that computers can have a very dramatic effect in keeping a plane stable when a human can not.
Will SCO now claim copyright of FORTRAN because it preceded Linux?
Isn't this something Mitsubishi are working on with their GDI (Gasoline Direct Injection)engine?c tion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_direct_inje
For something even more novel, see http://www.prautotype.nl/ (sorry, only Dutch) for an engine that can use a different compression for compression and exhaust stroke and can even change its compression dynamically whilst running.
I don't think so. You'll end up paying the rest of your 1 or 2 year contract without receiving service. Basically you violated the contract, so you'll have to pay.
Oh how the world would be a better place if you would've been able to get out of any contract with no extra charge by just abusing it.
Yeah, right. Welcome to corporate bullying tactics.
If you say "unlimited download", then that's just that. Unlimited. And don't go complaining that your customers use it as such.
If you want to impose a limit (and there is nothing wrong with that basic principle) than say so. Don't be a corporate bully by buttering up to people with your "unlimited download" and then axing them down because they take you up on your promise.
AFTER, and only AFTER you've done that, I fully agree with your 4 steps.
Try a Google on "Advanced find and replace".
Is that webpage's name actually 070228_beijing_anomoly.html?
Well, so much for respectable websites being able to write correct english I guess.
The Explorer's search has been broken since XP. On numerous occasions I was searching for text in a file and XP search says it can't find it. I don't know if I'm missing some setting that it does not search all files (which I already gathered is standard) or that it just can't search right.
I've installed a proper search program. It works like charm. Not 100% better, at least 200% better (it finds stuff and doesn't annoy me)
The Mozilla corporation already does something similar. It makes some $30m annually from the Google search box that is standard on every Firefox.
Hypervisor. Isn't that the thing that Geordi uses to see?
Yeah, we'll all benefit from that.
That, and the added sound pollution of the running diesel engine will not alert the enemy at all.
Seems logical.